When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents, Volume 6Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2006 - 312 halaman After his father suffered a massive stroke and his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Jim Comer found himself an overnight "parent" at the age of 51. When he walked into his father's hospital room everyone looked to him as the "man who knew all the answers." He soon realized he didn't even know the questions. In ten years of caregiving, Comer has not only learned the questions he has lived them, and with When Roles Reverse he shares his hard-won answers. He learned to deal with hospitals, insurance companies, rehab centers, his father's deafness and his mother's dementia. Through it all Jim has kept his sanity and sense of humor, in the process forging a deeper, more intimate relationship with his parents. With laugh-out-loud humor, Jim deals with improvisational moments for which there is no preparation: And offers personal experience and expert insight on the many issues it's absolutely essential to plan for such as: When Roles Reverse even includes "Fifty Questions that will save you Time, Money, and Tears," a special section designed to help families initiate vital communication and prepare for the crises, confusion and unexpected joys of caregiving. |
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... face and stomps his foot to the floorboard . Subtlety is not his strong suit . For most Americans , no right is more fundamental than driving . Many of our parents first got behind the wheel in their early teens and never planned to ...
... face the fact of his impending death . I'd lost a brother in a car wreck and seen friends waste away from cancer and AIDS , but I'd never kept watch by the bedside of a parent . This was new ter- ritory for me . On the table by his bed ...
... face was full , unlined , and peace- ful . I was amazed at the transformation . I don't know how they did it — and don't want to know - but he looked once again like the father I had known . I would not be forced to remember him with ...
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